How the Zoom Meeting Went

TAPT-ers,

We had a fun, somewhat low-key, Zoom meeting yesterday. Thanks for the participation. We did a physics quiz and heard an organ concert and caught up with a few people. I’m sorry if you tried to enter and weren’t able to – sometimes the google calendar can be confusing and I maybe shouldn’t have used it.

The physics quiz can be found at https://physicsworld.com/a/bored-of-the-lock-down-get-your-brain-working-with-this-physics-trivia-quiz/. Try it - it’s awesome.

Fritz wasn’t in attendance but Bruce suggested a good book: Isaac Asimov wrote a book about neutrinos in 1966 or so. A scan of the book is attached.

There was some general complaining about teaching online. We all feel underprepared and disappointed. As does everyone else in the world. Some people had some good suggestions about how to cope. Antonio was smart and brought his docu-camera home. Wish I’d thought of that. Bruce really likes the group breakout in Zoom. I’ve used it in Virtual Classroom with ok results I think. Helen pointed out that at least we’re not in England, where the school year doesn’t end until July. We all agreed with Helen – it’s just so hard to know if your students are learning, so hard to find out what they have learned.

Helen pointed me to this video, which we watched and then had a discussion of log-log plots. a great treatment of log-log plotting. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=370&v=54XLXg4fYsc&feature=emb_logo&fbclid=IwAR1OQ_-8EgAOc6Lb1pR6-12UjHrBnzxPNOTsU9BskGabY6suOZrKmt_PJZ4

We thought we would Zoom meet again on May 2, so I hope you will be able to join us then. It was fun to see people we don’t see often like Bob Capen – sorry we didn’t get to catch up with you Bob.

Also, we don’t often get to hear an organ concert – Mark Stockwell is building a large and complicated organ in his garage. It’s awesome.

We all hope schools will be open again in September. Helen’s joke: In the future, exponential growth will be taught using corona virus, and exponential decay will be taught using the interest of students in online lessons.

Hope everyone is healthy! Please feel free to add your own links; those that attended might want to remind me of anything I missed. 

Best,

Karie